300 dpi is more than enough IMO. Vectors is good, and for t-shirts, you want as few colours as possible.

The place I got the t-shirts done up just needed the artwork printed out onto plain photocopy paper and the screens for printing are made via a photocopy process - most interesting, and they came out really nice.

The online places can take most image types - no idea what the quality of the resulting merchandise is. If you find one that makes good quality stuff for a reasonable price, give us a bell.

jmarshall Wrote:300 dpi is more than enough IMO. Vectors is good, and for t-shirts, you want as few colours as possible.

The place I got the t-shirts done up just needed the artwork printed out onto plain photocopy paper and the screens for printing are made via a photocopy process - most interesting, and they came out really nice.

The online places can take most image types - no idea what the quality of the resulting merchandise is. If you find one that makes good quality stuff for a reasonable price, give us a bell.

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Jonathan

I've done some stuff with http://www.spreadshirt.net (http://www.spreadshirt.com for US page). Quality is very good and they have fair pricing. They support JPG/PNG/... raster format for white stuff (shirts, mugs, etc) and vector formats like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw (for everything but necessary for colored materials). You can add a few dollars/euros to the base price to get some revenue to support development. On http://www.spreadshirt.net they also have stickers. I made one once for a metal case and it looks great. Could be used for Case Stickers or even larger case mod or car stickers. A competition for some nice designs could get in some nice designs for it.

Definitely alternate logo 4 or 5. We've completely stopped using the other one, except for the daft logo in various random places on our ugly website (in case you're up to doing some more design work, hint, hint).

...I also like the "POWERED BY XBMC" and "XBMC MEDIA CENTER" slogans (text only) on top of each other

XBMC
MEDIA CENTER

and

POWERED BYXBMC

...or a one liner slogans like for example "My entertainment is powered by XBMC MEDIA CENTER"

[EDIT]: PPS! Another idea would be to also allow skinners to submit their design artwork to us and we could 'host' their own T-Shirt designs on our official XBMC Merchandise Store as well, that way you can get all your XBMC apparel in one store, good idea?

Quote:PPS! Another idea would be to also allow skinners to submit their design artwork to us and we could 'host' their own T-Short designs on the official XBMC Merchandise Store as well, that way you can get all your XBMC apparel in one store, good idea?

All cool slogans! ...I also like variations of them like "I'm a XBMC addict!" or "I'm a XBMC junky!" or "I'm a XBMC addict!", or "Videoholic!", "Movieholic", "Fanatic", "Fanboy" with the XBMC logotype text underneath in small print

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